Assassin’s Creed II PC update makes DRM slightly less atrocious

Ubisoft has realized it’s made a bit of a boo-boo. I mean, how else can you explain the company already releasing a patch for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed II? The Windows version of the game comes out March 9, 2010, complete with Ubisoft’s new, but already despised, form of PC DRM. The 18.6mb, v1.01 patch is supposed to try and make the DRM more bearable.

See, Ubisoft’s new DRM means you must make an Ubi.com account and can’t play any game that uses it offline. The game requires you to log in and be constantly connected to the internet, I guess so it can make sure you don’t suddenly switch from a game you paid money for to a pirated version. I don’t know. It doesn’t make sense to me either. I guess this means only people with a constant internet connection are the only ones allowed to play Ubisoft PC games.

The main problem with it is, if you lose that connection to Ubisoft via the internet, your game ends. Before the patch, this meant you’d have to pick up at the last point you saved. With the patch, it means you can pick up and resume playing right when you lost the connection.

The worst part is, the connection issue doesn’t have to just be your fault. If Ubisoft’s servers go down or there’s an outage on the company’s end, it means that you can’t play your game. In the case of Assassin’s Creed II, a game you spent $59.99 on.

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